- 10 years ago Sticky: OC Poetry Thread
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+34 +5On waiting until you're ready to get serious about your work
Writer Arriel Vinson on finding a book’s form, returning to your original intention, and prioritizing the work.
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+22 +3Can creative writing be taught?
MAYA ROSE FERNANDES I’m a published novelist and short story writer, who also teaches creative writing in Goa. I’ve been doing this for close to eight years.
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+41 +3Wulf and Eadwacer: why I think I've solved the mystery of this Old English poem
Here, possibly four centuries before women are given a significant voice in heroic poetry in Germany and Scandinavia, a queen speaks out in an English version of a Gothic story.
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+27 +7Ren - Hi Ren
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+11 +2What is a poet laureate and what does a poet laureate do?
If you were wondering what a poet laureate is or what a poet laureate does, we’ve talked to some poets laureate about their experience.
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+23 +5The classic ocean poetry taking on troubling new meanings
We hear the call of the sea in poems from Coleridge and Eliot to Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner, but those words also sound a warning – if only we would listen
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+14 +2Chloe Cherry Likes Her Men Like Her Tea
A film by Max Sherman. Based on a poem by Natalie Griffen. Starring the fabulous Chloe Cherry.
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+4 +1Poetry and Rhetoric in Washington DC
How do you inspire a divided nation to unite around a common cause? With poetry, of course. The resemblance of Amanda Gorman’s poem to a speech is no coincidence. She prepared for the event by studying how “rhetoric has been used for good” in the past. Rhetoric is a device most often used in political speeches.
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+2 +1Santabodies: A 2020 Christmas Story
Santabodies! How can Santa deliver presents safely this year? A short story full of hope for Christmas 2020.
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+3 +1The Rememberer
I’m sure we’ve all been through that phase when you just want to make 30 minute thinly veiled monochrome allegories about your fear of ageing.
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+2 +1The Fearless Invention of One of L.A.’s Greatest Poets
Wanda Coleman’s work tallies and transcends the difficulties of being a black woman in a profession that hardly pays.
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+27 +6Now Is the Perfect Time to Memorize a Poem
Give yourself over to a rhythm that is not your own.
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+3 +1At age 101, this woman released her first collection of poems
After decadeslong careers in landscape architecture and sculpture, centenarian finds art in words
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+28 +5Rejection Will Always Be There
Consider this your heads up.
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+9 +2Marie Ponsot, Poet of Love, Divorce and Family, Dies at 98
Her poetry — some of it stashed in a drawer for years — was tempered by years of being a single mother and her Roman Catholic faith.
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+32 +6Student discovers lost Siegfried Sassoon poem to young lover
Heartfelt handwritten lines from the war poet ‘fell into the lap’ of researcher who was trawling through theatre director’s letters
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+4 +1Rare seventeenth century poetry manuscript at risk of export
Manuscript of works by the poet John Donne is at risk of being lost abroad unless a UK buyer can step in to save it
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+26 +8Emily Dickinson Museum Receives $22 Million Gift by Harriet Staff
The Emily Dickinson Museum, located in Amherst, MA, has received a $22 million gift as part of a larger bequest to Amherst College from the late alumnus, William McC. Vickery. "The transformative...
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+25 +6Tangled Up in Blue: Deciphering a Bob Dylan Masterpiece
Dylan’s “Tangled Up in Blue” strikes a middle point between his more surreal lyrics of the ‘60s and his more straightforward love songs, and as Polyphonic’s recent video taking a deep dive into this “musical masterpiece” shows, that combination is why so many count it as one of his best songs. By Ted Mills.
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+1 +1Wild Is The Fire That Consumes Even The Sparkle Of Your Unforgettable Eyes (Live Spoken Word Piano Version)
Wild Is The Fire That Consumes Even The Sparkle Of Your Unforgettable Eyes by Wordsinger Loveless and longing, heartfire is dying, the silent flicker of your tongue a trampled ghost of memory. Shal…




















